RANGERRAB

I read somewhere he's wanting something like 10 players for next season. Would you risk letting him bring in an amount like that?

another disappointing aspect over the past few months is the sudden loss of form by the young players such as McKay, Crawford, Aird etc.

Regards holding the aces, CG must demand to see the SKY contract from last summer which Liewell & Dumbcaster don't seem to want anyone to see. Why is that ? does it contain clauses & sub-clauses about Rangers ? It'll be interesting to see exactly how much SKY & ESPN pay out at the end of the season. For example, will the amount be linked to the viewing figures throughout the season ?

what makes the writer so sure Ally McCoist will still be Rangers manager beyond this summer as per his last paragraph?

Much as it pains me to say it we need a change of manager for next season. I think it's far too big a risk to allow him to bring in players & they turn out to be flops like last summer. I genuinely believe a better manager would have got more out of the current squad. I don't think the likes of Black, Shiels, Sandaza, Cribari etc have suddenly become average or poor players. They should have been decent signings who could easily have coped with SFL3 ? Why haven't they? With a registration embargo looming last summer it was imperative to sign players before it started. We lost an entire MF and signed just one midfielder - Black. That was asking for trouble. Surely the manager should have seen that. Same at CB Whatever CG decides he must get this one correct. The performances of the past few months cannot be repeated next season.

Although you must be prepared to accept the consequences for that action if it impacts on others

well then CG must do all he can to sabotage the SKY deal. See how they like that...............

Is this Andrew Smith formerly of the Celtic View?

I'd go for a foreign manager (say Paolo Sergio or Dan Petrescu) with scottish coaches. I'd prefer a foreign boss who'd scrutinise the way everything is currently done & introduce much-needed improvements throughout. Let's start with first team training(or lack of it)

Their plan now looks so obvious now doesn't it ? when Liewell & dumbcaster agreed the contract with SKY last summer SKY said Rangers had to be back in the SPL next season. The only way they can do this & honour their promise to SKY (and to all the SFL clubs who were promised extra money) is to create SPL2 and have Rangers 'FAST-TRACKED' into it after winning SFL3 - PROVIDED RANGERS AGREE TO THAT OF COURSE............ Otherwise this whole thing collapses. SKY will pay peanuts or nothing at all. Others sponsors likewise. Is there a replacement sponsor for CB by the way? Rangers hold all the aces now. The only way we agree to SPL2 is under a whole raft of conditions i.e. Dumbcaster, Regan, Lunny etc must go for starters

It seems blatantly obvious that this reconstruction is somehow linked to the SKY contract Liewell & Dumbcaster were involved in last summer. This contract which they seem reluctant to show Longmuir & others who are also keen to see it as they may well believe there are all sorts of clauses & sub-clauses in it which are linked to Rangers. The Falkirk chairman & his chums would be better off concentrating their efforts questioning Dumbcaster on where their extra money is coming from and whether it is linked to the SKY contract only Liewell & Dumbcaster seem to have seen

Great to win it at last but hopefully over the next few weeks we'll get a better idea of where we're going regards a number of issues. CG now needs to come out and clarify more than a few things

where's he going then ? who'll give him the same or better terms than in his 4 year deal he got last summer ? a poor signing whom we're stuck with unfortunately.

hasn't oldco changed its name?

Only issue I have with Jon Daly is how we'd play him. Surely not for CB. Up front he tends to have striker playing off him i.e. goodwillie or Russell at Dundee Utd. I'd hope we'd do something similar & wouldn't use him(if he signs) as a lone striker and simply punt high balls to him because he's 6'3".

I'd say there's a very good chance of that happening. They need us for the money. That being the case then CG would hold all the aces..........now that would be interesting

They cannot afford not to have us in their top division next season otherwise the big financial contributors such as SKY and whoever replaces the CB (if they can get anyone) will either reduce these contributions or walk away altogether

I think he'd be a decent signing but get the impression he'd rather go down south to the championship or whatever.

Traynor has ammunition to unleash on the SFA regards the Whyte fiasco. Better to have him on our side so as to use this when the time is right. Since Traynor joined us it's been noticeable Rhegan & Dumbcaster have both kept a significantly lower profile.

would take him back on a short term deal to allow him to prove himself but as I keep saying it's MF & CB where were woefully short just now. These positions are the ones needing filling first

Our oldco hasn't been liquidated and will not be for years to come. It is simply an empty corporate shell with £5.5m in its account. All its assets i.e. club, stadium, training ground, players etc, were transferred over to CG's newco. Every non-bigot with half a braincell knows its the same club run by a different company. When the SFA licence transferred to the newco the club and all is history went with it.

the product on the pitch simply isn't good enough at present. The key issue is how to improve it i.e. give Ally more time & resources or bring in someone new. The status quo is not an option.. Something must change.

I couldn't even tell you which club sides Bridcutt & Boyd play for. Anyone know ? just goes to show how bad things have got

I think improving the style of play has generally been a fans requirement, and has been a massive failure. Promoting youths to 1st team - success developing youths - generally a failure. Are the youngsters in the team improving with match experience??? you have to ask if the young players playing in the first team this season are really good enough to start with. I'm not convinced very many we've seen this season will make it. McLeod & McKay have the potential to go far but whether they do or not remains to be seen. The rest are a 'no from me unfortunately

The reality is they're everywhere in Scotland. They're over-represented in politics(councillors, MSP's, MP'S & MEP's), the mhedia( BBC Scotland, Radio Clyde, Daily Rebel etc) and various professions such as the legal profession where just about every solicitor/lawyer seems to be one of them nowadays. Not bad for a section of the Scottish population which is supposedly less than 20%. Small wonder they're now more or less running Scottish football's governing bodies too.